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With less than two weeks to go, MongoDB UK is coming up fast. With four tracks and over 50 sessions, you’ll have a lot to choose from at the event. Here are some tips to help you get prepared—and excited—for the London event on June 20th.

1. Schedule an ...Ask the Expertsâ€œ Session

MongoDB days are an excellent opportunity to speak with MongoDB's core contributors who remain the foremost experts on the database. At MongoDB UK, we'll be hosting ...Ask the Expertsâ€œ sessions to offer you specialized, 15 minute sessions with 10gen's engineers. Sign up on-site for a... Read More >

Building on previous work, 10gen and Microsoft have collaborated to bring the power of MongoDB to the cloud with Windows Azure. With an easy-to-use installer, developers can now launch MongoDB for the Windows Azure Virtual Machine service.

Built on Windows PowerShell and Windows Azure Command Line Tool, the MongoDB installer for Windows Azure allows developers to easily install and run single and multi-node configurations of MongoDB on the Windows Azure Virtual Machine service. Once installed, developers can develop MongoDB applications in any language supported by MongoDB and Windows Azure, including .NET languages, Java, Node.JS, and PHP.

Last year, 10gen launched the MongoDB Masters program, to encourage the exchange of knowledge and expertise amongst MongoDB community evangelists and open source contributors. After almost nine months working on the program, 10gen will be adding more MongoDB Masters to its roster for the 2013 Calendar year.

What does it take to become a MongoDB Master? All of our masters have vastly distinct backgrounds, but two qualities make a MongoDB Master:

A Commitment to Open SourceMongoDB has a wealth of contributors from the open source community who support the growth of the MongoDB ecosystem. This includes development

We're accepting more Masters into our MongoDB Masters program for stellar MongoDB contributors, evangelists and community members. You can submit MongoDB Masterminds here. We’re closing this round of nominations of June 15, so send in your nominations now!

This is the second part of a blog series that details how to develop a mobile application that is backed by MongoDB and a PaaS. MongoDB makes a great companion to this mobile application given its ability to shard and the nature of being able to store JSON documents with little data manipulation required. In this blog post, part two of the series, we will go over the required components and software in order to develop cross platform mobile applications for the iPhone and Android operating systems. We will also install and configure the backend systems, including mongodb,... Read More >

Online music distribution has continually been a hotbed of innovation. But last year, when giants like Spotify were making their entry into the US market, a small startup in New York City took over the desktop music scene. Turntable.fm, a listening party for the web, powered by MongoDB, was an overnight success, and captured the screens and headsets of the New York City tech scene. A year later, we sat down with Billy Chasen to discuss his team’s decision to use MongoDB in their stack and get some advice on best practices for MongoDB.

We're accepting more Masters into our MongoDB Masters program for stellar MongoDB contributors, evangelists and community members. You can submit MongoDB Masterminds here. We’re closing this round of nominations of June 15, so send in your nominations now!

We’re excited today to announce a partnership with Pentaho to bring Pentaho’s data integration and business intelligence capabilities to MongoDB users. With a set of connectors we’ve worked on jointly, you’ll now be able to use the Pentaho Business Analytics suite to analyze data in MongoDB. This rich tool set will help you quickly integrate MongoDB into your existing environments and leverage a comprehensive set of business intelligence capabilities.

If you’re an enterprise architect, you can use Pentaho’s scalable data integration framework to transform and load across MongoDB and other data stores in private data centers... Read More >